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Narrated by:
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Scott Brick
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At long last, millions of Dune fans can now hear the unpublished chapters and scenes from Dune and Dune Messiah.
The Road to Dune also includes the original correspondence between Frank Herbert and famed editor John W. Campbell, Jr.; excerpts from Herbert's correspondence during his years-long struggle to get his innovative work published; and the article, "They Stopped the Moving Sands", Herbert's original inspiration for Dune.
The Road to Dune features newly discovered papers and manuscripts and also "Spice Planet", an original 60,000 word short novel by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, based on a detailed outline left by Frank Herbert. The Road to Dune is a treasure trove of essays, articles, and fiction that every Dune fan will want to add to their collection.
Find other titles in the epic saga known as Dune.©2005 Herbert Properties LLC (P)2005 Audio Renaissance, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishers, LLCListeners also enjoyed...
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- Narrated by: Scott Brick, Orlagh Cassidy, Euan Morton, and others
- Length: 21 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 125,293
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 108,094
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 107,983
Here is the novel that will be forever considered a triumph of the imagination. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, who would become the mysterious man known as Maud'dib. He would avenge the traitorous plot against his noble family and would bring to fruition humankind's most ancient and unattainable dream.
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1 out of 5 stars
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This classic deserves better
- By Matthew Salvo on 07-01-21
By: Frank Herbert
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Dreamer of Dune
- The Biography of Frank Herbert
- By: Brian Herbert
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 19 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 93
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 86
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 86
Everyone knows Frank Herbert’s Dune. One of the most popular science fiction novels ever written, it has become a worldwide phenomenon, winning awards, selling millions of copies around the world. Brian Herbert, Frank Herbert’s eldest son, tells the provocative story of his father’s extraordinary life in this honest and loving chronicle. He has also brought to light all the events in Herbert’s life that would find their way into speculative fiction’s greatest epic.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Herbert Was a Not a Nice Man
- By Gilbert M. Stack on 07-15-22
By: Brian Herbert
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The Godmakers
- By: Frank Herbert
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,354
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,218
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,218
On the edge of a war-weary and devastated galaxy, charismatic Lewis Orne has landed on Hamal. His assignment: To detect any signs of latent aggression in this planet's population. To his astonishment, he finds that his own latent extrasensory powers have suddenly blossomed, and he is invited to join the company of "gods" on this planet - and the people here place certain expectations on their gods.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Lewis Orne = Hari Seldon
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 07-20-16
By: Frank Herbert
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The Eyes of Heisenberg
- By: Frank Herbert
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 76
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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Story4 out of 5 stars 66
Public Law 10927 was clear and direct. Parents were permitted to watch the genetic alterations of their gametes by skilled surgeons...only no one ever requested it. When Lizbeth and Harvey Durant decided to invoke the Law, when Dr. Potter did not rearrange the most unusual genetic structure of their future son, barely an embryo growing in the State's special vat---the consequences of these decisions threatened to be catastrophic.
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5 out of 5 stars
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More In So Few Pages Than Most Entire Book Series Contain!
- By Anonymous User on 07-21-23
By: Frank Herbert
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Hellhole
- By: Brian Herbert, Kevin J Anderson
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 19 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 712
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 573
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Story4 out of 5 stars 572
Only the most desperate colonists dare to make a new home on Hellhole. Reeling from a recent asteroid impact, tortured with horrific storms, tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, and churning volcanic eruptions, the planet is a dumping ground for undesirables, misfits, and charlatans…but also a haven for dreamers and independent pioneers. Against all odds, an exiled general named Adolphus has turned Hellhole into a place of real opportunity for the desperate colonists who call the planet their home.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Cliff hanger alert!
- By Robert on 04-07-11
By: Brian Herbert, and others
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The White Plague
- By: Frank Herbert
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 19 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 440
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 307
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Story4 out of 5 stars 310
A warm day in Dublin, a crowded street corner. Suddenly, a car-bomb explodes, killing and injuring scores of innocent people.From the second-floor window of a building across the street, a visiting American watches, helpless, as his beloved wife and children are sacrificed in the heat and fire of someone else's cause.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book and not a rip off
- By Randall on 11-09-17
By: Frank Herbert
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The Dosadi Experiment
- By: Frank Herbert
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 342
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 283
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Story4 out of 5 stars 283
Generations of a tormented human-alien people, caged on a toxic planet, conditioned by constant hunger and war - this is the Dosadi Experiment, and it has succeeded too well. For the Dosadi have bred for vengeance as well as cunning, and they have learned how to pass through the shimmering God Wall to exact their dreadful revenge on the Universe that created them....
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2 out of 5 stars
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The wrong narrator...again....
- By Stephen Hickman on 01-01-18
By: Frank Herbert
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The Green Brain
- By: Frank Herbert
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 50
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Story4 out of 5 stars 43
Using deadly foamal bombs and newly developed vibration weapons, men like Joao Martinho and his coworkers fought to clear the green hell of the Mato Grosso. But somehow those areas that had been completely cleared were becoming reinfested, despite the impenetrable vibration barriers. And tales were coming out of the jungles - tales of insects mutated to incredible sizes, of creatures who seemed to be men but whose eyes gleamed with the chitinous sheen of insects....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very interesting story
- By Katie Taylor on 07-09-24
By: Frank Herbert
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Destination: Void
- The Pandora Sequence
- By: Frank Herbert
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,014
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 913
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Story4 out of 5 stars 912
The starship Earthling, filled with thousands of hibernating colonists en route to a new world at Tau Ceti, is stranded beyond the solar system when the ship's three organic mental cores—disembodied human brains that control the vessel's functions—go insane. The emergency skeleton crew sees only one chance for survival: build an artificial consciousness in the Earthling's primary computer that can guide them to their destination—and hope it doesn't destroy the human race.
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5 out of 5 stars
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For Devotees Mostly
- By John Strange on 07-25-15
By: Frank Herbert
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Whipping Star
- By: Frank Herbert
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 261
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 208
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Story4 out of 5 stars 214
In the far future, humankind has made contact with numerous other species - and has helped to form the ConSentiency to govern between the species. After suffering under a tyrannous pure democracy that had the power to create laws so fast that no thought could be given to the effects, the sentients of the galaxy found a need for the Bureau of Sabotage (BuSab) to slow the wheels of government, thereby preventing it from legislating recklessly.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Zero Star
- By Planetary Defense Commander on 12-11-13
By: Frank Herbert
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Missing Link
- By: Frank Herbert
- Narrated by: Tony J. Martin
- Length: 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story5 out of 5 stars 2
Step into a world of cosmic mystery and exploration with Missing Link by Frank Herbert, narrated by Tony J. Martin. In this gripping science fiction tale, humanity’s encounter with an alien civilization raises profound questions about evolution, intelligence, and survival. As a lone space traveler navigates an enigmatic alien landscape, the discovery of strange markings and signs of life leads to a revelation that could redefine humanity’s place in the universe.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Missing Link
- By Jesse on 02-07-25
By: Frank Herbert
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Gilgamesh
- A New English Version
- By: Stephen Mitchell - translator
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,100
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,381
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,372
This brilliant new treatment of the world's oldest epic is a literary event on par with Seamus Heaney's wildly popular Beowulf translation. Esteemed translator and best-selling author Stephen Mitchell energizes a heroic tale so old it predates Homer's Iliad by more than a millennium.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A defense of this "translation"
- By George on 07-16-08
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Dumbledore
- The Life and Lies of Hogwarts's Renowned Headmaster: An Unofficial Exploration
- By: Irvin Khaytman
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 157
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 145
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Story4 out of 5 stars 145
Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore, Headmaster of Hogwarts, is one of the most recognizable and mysterious figures in the Harry Potter series. As an unscrupulous beetle-like journalist once said, he's "a biographer's dream." Is he omniscient or limited? Is he benevolent or malevolent? What really drove him in the last years of an extraordinary life? Dumbledore dives between the lines of the Harry Potter books to create a portrait of the controversial Headmaster. We find Dumbledore's hand in every seeming coincidence and consider the impossible decisions he had to make.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting and informative, but...
- By James Fields on 08-31-23
By: Irvin Khaytman
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Worlds of Exile and Illusion
- Three Complete Novels of the Hainish Series in One Volume—Rocannon's World; Planet of Exile; City of Illusions
- By: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Narrated by: Michael Crouch, Alyssa Bresnahan
- Length: 16 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 36
Three remarkable journeys into the stars: Worlds of Exile and Illusion includes Rocannon's World, Planet of Exile, and City of Illusions. These three spacefaring adventures mark the beginning of grand master Ursula K. Le Guin’s remarkable career. Set in the same universe as Le Guin’s groundbreaking classics The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed, these first three books of the celebrated Hainish series follow travelers of many worlds and civilizations in the depths of space.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Well and Beautifully Told
- By K.E.H. on 04-07-25
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The Andromeda Strain
- By: Michael Crichton
- Narrated by: David Morse
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 12,616
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 11,443
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Story4 out of 5 stars 11,446
The United States government is given a warning by the preeminent biophysicists in the country: current sterilization procedures applied to returning space probes may be inadequate to guarantee uncontaminated re-entry to the atmosphere.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Clarkenesque
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 11-26-15
By: Michael Crichton
not what I expected
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Fascinating Dunes
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good background
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Dune's lost or missing extras
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this was great listening
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The Road To Dune (Unabriged)
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political psychology
good for writers to see inside Herbert
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Short stories
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Must read for serious Dune fans
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Straight to the heart of Dune
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